Indiana Eugenics

Indiana Eugenics

Indiana was the first government in the world to pass a eugenic sterilization law. The state sterilized 2,500 people from 1907-to-1974. Indiana apologized for implementing the program earlier this year, on the 100th anniversary of its inception. A five-part news series on history of Eugenics in Indiana.

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Indiana Eugenics, Part 1: The Eugenics Movement
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Indiana Eugenics, Part 1: The Eugenics Movement
September 25, 2007

Eugenics supporters believed they could improve society with sterilization and other progressive...

Indiana Eugenics, Part 2: Legalization
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Indiana Eugenics, Part 2: Legalization
September 25, 2007

In the second installment of the five part series WFYI's Mary Hartnett explores how the state...

Indiana Eugenics, Part 3: The Process
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Indiana Eugenics, Part 3: The Process
September 25, 2007

In part three of the series, a look at how the process worked and why the program finally ended....

Indiana Eugenics, Part 4: Speaking Up
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Indiana Eugenics, Part 4: Speaking Up
September 25, 2007

Indiana enforced a eugenic law that allowed institutions to sterilize the "mentally defective"...

Indiana Eugenics, Part 5: A New Kind Of Eugenics?
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Indiana Eugenics, Part 5: A New Kind Of Eugenics?
September 25, 2007

These days, a lot ethicists, scientists and sociologists say we are in a new eugenics era....

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